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Curriculum
The International Security Policy Concentration (ISP) requires 15 points, consisting of 5 three-point courses: 1 core course; 1 from options in Group A: General Problems in International Security and Conflict Management; 1 from options in Group B: Use of Force; 2 electives (preferably including a course on security issues in a particular country or region).
A preliminary list of eligible courses is listed below; please refer to the Directory of Classes for the scheduling and availability of the courses.
ISP Concentration Core Requirements - 3 courses required
Course Number |
Course Title |
POLS W4895 |
War, Peace, and Strategy (core required course) |
Group A |
(select from list below) |
Group B |
(select from list below) |
ISP Concentration Electives - select 2 courses from below (Group A, B, or C, or other with Concentration Director approval)
Group A: General Problems in International Security and Conflict Management
(choose at least one)
Course Number |
Course Title |
| INAF U4545 | Contemporary Diplomacy |
| INAF U6389 | State Formation, Violence and Intervention in the Modern World |
INAF U6416 |
Third World Security Issues |
INAF U6440 |
Peace Operations in Fragile States |
| INAF U6568 | Strategy and U.S. Foreign Policy |
| INAF U6680 | U.S. Energy Security: Geopolitics of Oil and Gas |
INAF U8132 |
Understanding Intelligence Operations |
INAF U8142 |
Intelligence and Foreign Policy |
INAF U8738 |
Peacemaking and Peacekeeping |
INAF U8818 |
International Ethics |
POLS G6801 |
Theories of International Relations |
| POLS G8844 | Nationalism |
| POLS G8864 | Cooperation and Security |
LAW L9377 |
Enforcing International Law |
Group B: Use of Force
(choose at least one)
Course Number |
Course Title |
| INAF U6228 | Cybersecurity |
INAF U6285 |
Methods for Defense Analysis and Assessment |
INAF U6345 |
Analytical Techniques in Military Policy |
| INAF U6378 | Evolution of Terrorism |
INAF U6387 |
Terrorism and Counterterrorism |
| INAF U6388 | Urban Counter-Terrorism/Modern Urban Terrorism |
| INAF U6393 | Evolving Military Strategy Post-9/11 |
| INAF U6399 | Weapons of Mass Destruction
|
INAF U6799 |
Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict |
| INAF U6805 | Limited War and Low Intensity Conflict |
| INAF U6880 | Planning U.S. Military Forces |
| INAF U8879 | Technology and National Security |
Group C: Electives
(choose at least two of any of the courses listed above, below, or in the official ISP Information Bulletin)
Course Number |
Course Title |
| INAF U6221 | Navigating by Starlight: Challenges of Conflict Resolution |
| INAF U6222 | Intelligence Estimates and National Security (1.5 pts.) |
| INAF U6346 | Role of the United States in World Affairs, I |
| INAF U6347 | U.S. Role in World Affairs |
| INAF U6388 | Modern Urban Terrorism |
| INAF U6394 | Writing About War |
| INAF U6445 | Talking with the Enemy |
| INAF U6564 | Applied Peacebuilding: Fieldwork |
| INAF U6798 | Central Issues in American Foreign Policy |
| INAF U6802 | International Law |
| INAF U8136 | U.S. Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf |
| INAF U8415 | U.S.-Latin American Relations: WWII-Present |
| INAF U8507 | Security Council/Peacekeeping - Africa in the 21st Century |
| INAF U8561 | War Termination and the Stability of Peace |
| INAF U8565 | European Security |
| INAF U8738 | Peacemaking/Peacekeeping |
| INAF U8799 | Reporting Conflicts (1.5 pts.) |
| INAF U8885 | Conflict Assessment |
| INAF U8867 | International Enforcement and the Security Council |
| PUAF U6801 | Negotiation and Conflict Resolution |
| REGN U6644 | The Idea of Political Islam |
| REGN U8595 | Persian Gulf in the 20th Century |
| HIST G8712 | The United States, the Middle East & the Cold War |
| HIST G8235 | Islam Across Eurasia |
| HIST W3377 | International and Global History Since World War II |
| HIST W3491 | U.S. Foreign Relations, 1890-1990 |
| LAW L6458 | National Security Law |
| POLS W4871 | Chinese Foreign Policy |
POLS G8811 |
Civil Wars |
| POLS G8843 | International Law and International Relations |
POLS G8876 |
US-Japan Relations from WWII to Present |
| INAF U6396 | Mediation of Armed Conflict |
| INAF U8909 | Environment, Conflict and Resolution Strategies |
| ORLG J6040 | Fundamental of Cooperation, Conflict Resolution and Mediation in Different Institutional Contexts |
| JOUR J6014 | Covering Conflict |
| LAW L9001 | UN Peacekeeping |
| INAF U6378 | Evolution of Terrorism |
| POLS G8833 | Law of War |
| INAF U6556 | UN: Challenges and Alternatives |
| INAF U6712 | Political Islam |
| INAF U8559 | Building Peace After Conflict (1.5 pts.) |
| LAW L6410 | Constitution and Foreign Affairs |
| LAW L6549 | Terror and Consent |
| LAW L8079 | Jurisprudence of War |
| POLS G8865 | United States Foreign Policy |
| HIST W3719 | History of the Modern Middle East |
| REGN U4690 | Palestinian and Israeli Security Dilemmas |
| INAF U6430 | East Asian Security |
| INAF U6727 | Deconstructing Afghanistan |
| REGN U8750 | Political Transition in the Former Soviet Union |
| REGN U8757 | Ukrainian Foreign Policy |
| POLS G8205 | History of East-West Relations in Post WWII Europe |
| POLS W4808 | Weapons, Strategy, and War |
| POLS G8844 | Nationalism |
| POLS G88xx | The Causes and Consequences of Terrorism |
| REGN U8700 | Political Leadership in International Relations |
| INAF U6866 | Conflict in Africa (not offered 2012-2013) |